Musnad Ahmad 15747

Translation

✧ That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him: 'O Dahhak, what is your food?' He said: 'O Messenger of Allah, meat and milk.' He said: 'Then what does it become?' He said: 'To what you already know.' He said: 'Indeed, Allah, Blessed and Exalted, has struck what comes out of the son of Adam as a parable for this world.'

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What scholars said about it

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  رجال الطبراني رجال الصحيح غير علي بن زيد بن جدعان وقد وثق

  in مسند أحمد, p. 15917

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Ḍaḥḥāk b. Sufyān al-Kilābī

   known Companion. He was among the Prophet's ﷺ collectors of alms
   الضَّحَّاك بن سُفْيَان الكِلَابِيّصحابي معروف . كان من عمال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم على الصدقات
   عن
2. 2
   al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AH
   الْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلس
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAlī b. Zayd b. Judʿān

   weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 127 AH, or 129 AH, or 131 AH
   عَلِيِّ بْنِ جُدْعَانَضعيف
   عن
4. 4
   Ḥammād b. Zayd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh).d. 177 AH, also said 179 AH
   حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه.
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Malik

   trustworthy (thiqah), criticized without proofd. 221 AH, or 222 AH
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِثقة ، تكلم فيه بلا حجة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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